Keywords: cabezon; Scorpaenichthys marmoratus; recruitment; recruitment rate; otolith asymmetry; larval fish mortality; developmental success; survivorship; time-series; SMURF; Standard Monitoring Units for the Recruitment of Fishes; sea surface temperature; SST
Rockfishes (Sebastes) are important species for commercial and recreational fishing, as well as evolutionary and ecological research. It can be impractical to identify the sex of rockfishes using visual identification or lethal dissection, and the sex-determination systems of these species have not been studied extensively. The aim of this research...